The human game may be coming to a close
Bill McKibben says it might be curtains for humanity. Cass Sunstein says social movements may surprise you, but they shouldn’t. And a look at one controversial social movement: affirmative action.
Bill McKibben, Falter
Three decades ago, Bill McKibben wrote a book about climate change called The End of Nature. It warned of radical changes to the planet if something wasn’t done to combat the greenhouse effect. We haven’t done the greatest job of that, and Bill McKibben is back with a new book. It’s called Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Cass Sunstein, How Change Happens
How many people do you think hold your same opinions? And how well do you think you could predict the next social movement? Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein says not to be so certain. His latest book is called How Change Happens.
Affirmative action and Asians
This year, Washington state lifted a 20 year ban on affirmative action. And opponents have already filed a referendum to overturn it. One of the groups defending affirmative action is Asian Americans Advancing Justice, which is challenging the model minority myth. Nicole Gon Ochi is a supervising attorney there.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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